Officials are blaming a "premature ignition" for an all-too-brief fireworks show over San Diego Bay last night. Minutes before the scheduled 20-minute show was supposed to start, all of the fireworks fired at once.
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The 2012 Olympic games begin in London in about three weeks. Despite over 100 years of competition, each Olympic competition still brings great leaps forward in athletic achievement. Runners shave tenths of seconds off their sprints, marksmen become more accurate and javelin throwers throw even farther.
So, the Big Bay Boom fireworks show was a big bang bust. Not just a failure, one could argue that the firework display qualifies as an epic fail, a special title reserved for something so botched, the failure itself becomes legendary.
And of course, there are plenty of examples in this category. Here to help sort through some of the best of the worst is KPCC's Sanden Totten.
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